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Standardized technologies such as LTE, WiFi, NFC, RFID or Bluetooth will strongly contribute to the next technological revolution of the Internet of Things (IoT). In this regard standard-essential patents (SEPs) are increasingly the subject of lively debates among market observers, policy makers and regulatory institutions. Yet little is known about the overall number truly standard essential patents declared in the numerous standard setting organizations (SSOs). In this report all publically available worldwide declared SEPs are analyzed to provide a more transparent understanding on the technological concentration and the regional application of SEPs, an overview of global SEP owners as well as an analysis on activities connected to patent licensing, patent trade, patent litigation and patent essentiality. The objective is thereby to better assess the needs and feasibility of more informative patent declarations.

Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP), prepared by the Secretariat with contributions from Mr. Knut Blind, Professor, Berlin University of Technology, Faculty of Economics and Management, and Chair of Innovation Economics, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS Public Innovation, Berlin, Germany, and his colleagues at the Berlin University of Technology (2014)

This article is the first approach to analyze structures of a large sample of standards consortia to provide evidence on how consortia are formed, organized and why they appear or disappear in the market.

According to Pohlmann, IPlytics analyses provide an accurate management of intellectual property rights so that firms are able “to focus their R&D expenditures, save costs and leverage their IPRs.” In other words, private sector players assess whether an innovation is free of third parties’ intellectual property rights strategically.